Albert Oehlen, artist and art
Born 1954, Birth Krefeld, Germany.
The artist lives and works in Madrid.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Painting, Neue Wilden,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
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Malerei 1980-2005
In a series ranging from the everyday to strange-looking interior depictions, Albert Oehlen develops a new procedure by mixing photography and painting in order to break up the limits of these media and their ethics…
Black Rationality appropriates the tones and equestrian subject of historical painting and re-renders them as a punk-ethic effigy. The skeletons of the horses provide a Picasso-like motif. Seemingly two paintings in one, Black Rationality is a painting in conflict. Albert Oehlen sets up the flatness of an abstract expressionist ground; the figures are placed as a separate layer creating an illusion of perspective…
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